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{en} Julian Budden. '''''Puccini: His Life and Works'''''. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
{en} Howard Greenfeld. '''''Puccini: A Biography'''''. New York: Putnam, 1980.


"Julian Budden offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's life, here is an illuminating look at some of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Budden provides an illuminating look at the process of putting an opera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera--the struggle to find the right performers for the debut of La Boheme, Puccini's anxiety about completing Turandot, and his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo. Budden provides an informative analysis of the operas themselves, examining the music act by act. He highlights the influence of Wagner on Puccini--alone among his Italian contemporaries, Puccini followed Wagner's example in bringing the motif into the forefront of his narrative, sometimes voicing the singer's unexpressed thoughts, sometimes sending out a signal to the audience of which the character is unaware. And Budden also paints an intriguing portrait of Puccini the man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists. Affable, well mannered, gifted with a broad sense of fun, he rarely failed to charm all who met him. A new volume in the esteemed Master Musicians series, Puccini offers a masterful portrait of this beloved Italian composer."--
"In this portrait of the composer of such notable operas as Tosca, La Boheme, and Madama Buttefly, the author has brought to life the private man as well as the publicly adored musician. Making extensive use of correspondence to, from, and around Puccini, much of which had not been previously published in English, the author traces Puccini's life from its origins in the provincial capital of Lucca to his death from throat cancer in a hospital in Belgium."--


<Contents:> "Only a musician, only a fool" -- Milan: the early years -- The House of Ricordi -- Manon Lescaut -- International fame -- La Bohème -- Tosca -- Madama Butterfly -- "We are the victims of our temperaments" -- Interlude: the search for new subjects -- "The girl is more difficult than I thought" -- Doria: a scandal -- "I have Minnie: the rest is emptiness" -- Second interlude: "Always searching, and finding nothing" -- he war years: La Rondine -- Il Trittico -- Turandot -- "...in the hands of the doctors and of God."


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[[Category:Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924), composer]]
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{en} Howard Greenfeld. Puccini: A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1980.

"In this portrait of the composer of such notable operas as Tosca, La Boheme, and Madama Buttefly, the author has brought to life the private man as well as the publicly adored musician. Making extensive use of correspondence to, from, and around Puccini, much of which had not been previously published in English, the author traces Puccini's life from its origins in the provincial capital of Lucca to his death from throat cancer in a hospital in Belgium."--

<Contents:> "Only a musician, only a fool" -- Milan: the early years -- The House of Ricordi -- Manon Lescaut -- International fame -- La Bohème -- Tosca -- Madama Butterfly -- "We are the victims of our temperaments" -- Interlude: the search for new subjects -- "The girl is more difficult than I thought" -- Doria: a scandal -- "I have Minnie: the rest is emptiness" -- Second interlude: "Always searching, and finding nothing" -- he war years: La Rondine -- Il Trittico -- Turandot -- "...in the hands of the doctors and of God."

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